Well, from the picture you might have guessed it--the doc has put me on bedrest for 2 weeks with my ankle. Seems that my ankle has become infected where I had the surgery. That is why it has been swelling and why the skin is abnormally red around the incision. Well, that's just great huh?! The doctor said I had been on it entirely too much and I told him that at work they wouldn't let me really prop it up, plus he told me that after a weekend of not being on it at all it would be fine and that I could go back to work. Guess I should've asked for the week after the surgery off but I was going on what he said. I didn't realize that it was excruciatingly painful to walk on it cause it was infected, I just figured it was from it healing. So, anyway, the stitches are out and I am out of work for 2 weeks. I am on 2000 mg of amoxicillin a day plus 10 mg of percocet for the pain. I just wish that my 3 yr old understood that mommy can't get up when he wants me to right now but of course he doesn't cause he is only 3. So, I stay off of it while he is at daycare and then when he gets home I just grin and bear it. :) Guess I will be able to catch up on the tivo'd stuff..lol.
In the midst of all of this I have managed to piss off the Vice President of the Special Loans dept. She sent me an email wanting to know why I changed something on an account and she sent the email while I was out. So I didn't answer her, I just waited till my boss got back into town to see what I should do. I told her yesterday what happened and she informed me to reply back and let her know that I was having it handled since I was on LOA. So I did and not 2 seconds later another email came to me from the VP and she says ( in a really pissed off tone) that if I was on LOA then I should have my out of office message on and have all emails referred to my manager and I shouldn't be checking and handling emails from home. Nothing in the way of "oh I hope you feel better or sorry to hear your ankle is worse than before" so yeah lover her too..lol. WTF!!! whatever. I did have the out of office thing on and I did what I was told to do by my manager. I called my manager to let her know that the VP was pissed at me and she said yeah I shouldn't be checking them while out on LOA. Okay whatever, you just told me to do it and now I shouldn't? Anyway, so I should have more time these next two weeks to post and to check on everyone else's posts :)
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Have you been keeping yourself busy?!?!? I saw ya on IM today yet was so swamped didn't have a chance to say hi :) When do you go back to work>
Sorry to hear about the infection :-( I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't really get up and do stuff... hopefully you'll have plenty of movies to watch and books to read!
And that sucks about the stuff at work. My boss pulled a few things similar to that and I lost respect for him. He hasn't quite gained it back yet.
Get better!
I'm getting a little better guys! :) Fortunately I can get up a little and do some things! I go back to work on 3/5 :(
Yeah I pretty much have no respect for this VP anymore. She showed her true colors the other day
Hi Pam,
Hope you're feeling better these days.
Glad to hear about your new addition too!
Cheers!
the dilemma of peeking in at work to tend to details while you're out on LOA is that technically if you do that, then you ARE working and that screws up your LOA & then you can't continue. I've heard an explanation of the problem, but never really understood it, but it's some HR & legal problem. So the bottom line is, if you're off on a LOA, then stay off. Hope your foot healed OK.
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